"Don't Do Anything Heroic": Six Months To Inchon...

Robert Dale Reem, USMC, author of these letters, wrote daily to his new bride at home, Donna, while aboard ship in the Mediterranean Sea. Bob was deployed in April 1950 from Norfolk, Virginia aboard the USS Worcester CL144. He was one of the FMF (Fleet Marine Force) Officers aboard with 97 Marines of the 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines. It was foreseen that the annual Sixth Fleet Mediterranean Cruse of 1950, would be a typically exciting five month cruse for Bob and his FMF Marines, incorporatin...